Trump didn&#039;t know about his son&#039;s meeting with Russian lawyer

| Updated: Jul 12, 2017 11:46 IST

Washington D.C. [United States], July 12 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump's eldest son Donald Trump Jr. has said that he did not tell his father about his meeting with a Russian lawyer as "there was nothing to tell". "No. It was just a nothing. There was nothing to tell," Trump Jr. said in an interview with Fox News. Fox News quoted Trump Jr. as saying that he probably would have done things a little differently when he met with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya on Twitter during his father's presidential campaign in June 2016. Earlier, defending Donald Trump Jr., who has been caught at the centre of the controversy surrounding Russian meddling in the 2016 elections, President Trump called the former a high-quality person and also applauded his transparency. "My son is a high-quality person and I applaud his transparency," CNN quoted a statement from the President as saying by White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Trump Jr. on Tuesday released an email chain that shows him discussing plans to hear damaging information on Hillary Clinton that were described as "part of Russia and its government's support for Donald Trump." Trump Jr. tweeted that he was releasing the emails to be "totally transparent" quelling reports that cited that he was told before his meeting with a Russian lawyer that he would be offered compromising information about Hillary Clinton. "Here's my statement and the full email chain," he tweeted. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here&#39;s my statement and the full email chain <a href="https://t.co/x050r5n5LQ">pic.twitter.com/x050r5n5LQ</a></p>&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789418455953413">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here is page 4 (which did not post due to space constraints). <a href="https://t.co/z1Xi4nr2gq">pic.twitter.com/z1Xi4nr2gq</a></p>&mdash; Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/884789839522140166">July 11, 2017</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> It was earlier reported that Trump Jr. was promised to damage information about Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Russian lawyer who has connections to the Kremlin. As per the New York Times, the information was provided by three advisers to the White House who briefed about the meeting and two others who had knowledge of it. According to reports, the unreported meeting, which took place on June 9, 2016 at Trump Tower in Manhattan, was attended by Trump's campaign chairman, Paul J. Manafort and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Though, it is still unclear whether Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, actually fulfilled the promised compromising information about Clinton or not. Donald Trump Jr. in a statement had said he had met the Russian lawyer at the request of an acquaintance. "After pleasantries were exchanged the woman stated that she had information that individuals connected to Russia were funding the Democratic National Committee and supporting Clinton. Her statements were vague, ambiguous and made no sense. No details or supporting information was provided or even offered. It quickly became clear that she had no meaningful information." He further claimed that he turned the conversation to adoption of Russian children and the Magnitsky Act. According to a report by the New York Times, Trump Jr. was informed in an email that the cited material was a part of a Russian Government effort to aid his father's candidature. The email was sent by Rob Goldstone, a publicist and former British tabloid reporter who helped broker the June 2016 meeting. The emails are the first documentary evidence that a top Trump associate took a meeting that was connected to a Russian government effort to help Trump in the 2016 election. Trump Jr., in addition to being the president's son, was deeply involved in his presidential campaign. (ANI)

Sydney [Australia], Nov 22 (ANI): President Ram Nath Kovind, while stressing the need for strengthening the economic ties between India and Australia, on Thursday said that Indian market offered the "companies and investors island continenta huge consumer base and the prospect of considerable retur

Sydney [Australia], Nov 22 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday said that India was the world's "fastest-growing major economy" and offers "more opportunity for Australian business for over next 20" years.

London [United Kingdom], Nov 22 (ANI): Fugitive Indian businessman Vijay Mallya on Thursday faced a major setback in his battle to save his luxurious London house from foreclosure by Swiss bank UBS after the United Kingdom (UK) High Court rejected scores of the arguments presented by his legal team du

Sydney [Australia], Nov 22 (ANI): India and Australia exchanged five Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) in the presence of Foreign Minister of Australia Marine Payne and Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Anantkumar Hegde during President Ramnath Kovind's maiden visit to

Sydney [Australia], Nov 22 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Scott John Morrison on Thursday morning called on President Ramnath Kovind in Sydney before latter is given official military honours at Admiralty House by Governor-General of Australia Peter Cosgrove.

Sydney[Australia], November 22 (ANI): Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison shot off a series of tweets on Wednesday criticising some leaders of the Muslim community for boycotting a meeting that he called on Thursday to find ways of de-radicalising members of the Muslim community.

London [UK], Nov 21 (ANI): Amnesty's Secretary General Kumi Naidoo wrote to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on November 21 (IST), urging him to set up a UN investigation into slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing.

Abu Dhabi [UAE], Nov 21 (ANI): Matthew Hedges, a specialist in Middle Eastern studies at UK's Durham University, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on charges of espionage.

Al Ain (UAE), Nov 21, (ANI): A bizarre incident has come to the fore in Abu Dhabi, where a woman allegedly killed her ex-boyfriend, cooked his remains into a Moroccan dish and fed it to construction workers in the Arabian country.